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All Dogs go to Heaven By: Faith Wellman,
Colorado, USA
Made in memory of my sweet old puppy dogs that are no longer with me. I envisioned them moving on to a happier place where they can run to their heart’s content! The inscription below says: “All dogs go to Heaven … where they watch us through the stars and wait patiently for us to come home.”
Quilt size: width: 10" height: 13"
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Andy’s Rag Quilt By: Flo @ Zeedlebbez,
California, USA
I’ve made my dog his own quilt and I wanted to make a similar quilt for my cat Andy. I thought he might like a little treat pocket to put some catnip or other treat inside for him to find. It’s rag quilts with curved corners made with three layers of flannel and cotton.
Quilt size: width: 23" height: 30"
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Arlo’s quilt By: LizA.,
Washington, USA
Our very spoiled, very neurotic Dalmatian likes to be covered up at nite or wrapped up in a quilt while cowering & shaking on your lap during thunderstorms. The Dalmatian fabric in this quilt was given to me from my best quilting buddy who gave me a hard time for not having made Arlo his own quilt.
Quilt size: width: 49" height: 60"
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Bart’s speelkeed By: Roos Kuypers,
Netherlands
This quilt was made for my youngest Brother and Sister in Law when they were expecting their first baby. I loved the dogs in the panel and the lovely colours.
Quilt size: width: 43" height: 43"
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Beau and Georgie’s Excellent Adventure: Up on the Woof By: Toni Mitt,
Wisconsin, USA
When Beau (the black cocker spaniel) was about 8, he went blind, and one of his eyes was removed. When he was about 11, we got another cocker spaniel puppy named Georgie. Georgie was Beau’s companion and “seeing eye pup” till he died at age 13. They had many excellent adventures together.
Quilt size: width: 14" height: 18"
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Bertha Blub By: Daniela,
Germany
I had made this quilt for a competition of the German Patchworkgilde. It was a lot of fun to work on this. Now my little daughter use it as her blanket
Quilt size: width: 27.5" height: 27.5"
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Black and White Cats By: The Patchsmith,
United Kingdom
This little mug rug is inspired by the two cats that live either side of my home. One is old and cunning, the other is young and quick. Both are black and white and both get up to mischief!
Quilt size: width: 8.5" height: 5"
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Blackie’s quilt By: Teresa Fegueiras,
Portugal
I have a dog, a mini schnauzer and when I saw the awesome quilt Milo ( Michele’s cute dog) I thought that Blackie should have one too. I designed, its machine pieced and machine quilted and his name is embroidered. He love his quilt.
Quilt size: width: 33,5" height: 22"
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Bridget’s Memory Quilt By: Cynthia Rhodes,
Minnesota, USA
Memory quilt of our beloved Bridget. We adopted her at 7.5 weeks and said goodbye to her at 17.5 years. The pattern Tile Tango by Terry Atkinson and fat quarters were given to me by my friends at Bear Patch Quilting Co., MN, when they learned of Bridget’s passing. The paw prints in borders are hers.
Quilt size: width: 52" height: 67"
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Charlie By: QuilterKat,
California, USA
Charlie is my daughter’s goat. He is a real sweetie, but getting him to hold still for the camera was a real challenge. Once I had a satisfactory portrait, I used it to create the pattern for the quilt. It is done with satin stitching over raw edge applique. It was a fun project.
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 26"
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Collecting Bugs By: Susan Stephens,
Australia
My grandson loves collecting all kinds of bugs for Pets. He gives them names and feeds them. I have made him a lap quilt to remind him of his bugs. It is not quite finished yet as it has to be quilted but he loves it.
Quilt size: width: 48" height: 67"
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Cornered! By: Wendy L Starn,
Louisiana, USA
In 2008, my son found a kitten under the hood of the car. Oslo won his heart, and the scorn of our other two cats, Boris the black cat, and Moose the orange cat. Puss in the Corner background fabrics hand-stamped by the artist. Threadpainted over fabric collage. based on artist’s photos.
Quilt size: width: 36" height: 35"
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Critter Quilt #1 By: Faye Gaudet,
Colorado, USA
Big cats in the middle, surrounded by mice in floating teacups. The border is made of fantasy kitties with other critters, and flowers abound fussy cut to fit the vertical and horizontal borders
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 24"
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Darling Dogs By: Adventurous Quilter,
Colorado, USA
I have two dogs Ebony the Maltipoo & Henry the Cockapoo, I was inspired by them into making several blocks which I eventually added to and made an entire quilt from. I used scraps from my stash for the entire quilt. I used patterns from: Paper Pieced Cats and Dogs by Shirley Liby for 3 of the blocks
Quilt size: width: 39" height: 51"
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Dogs and more dogs By: Elizabeth,
Ontario, Canada
This started of to be a quilt for my dog, ended up being a memory quilt, and my grandson can not wait for it to be loaded on the long arm so he can have it.
Quilt size: width: 30" height: 45"
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Freeway By: mindless,
Washington, USA
I made this lap quilt for a friend who works at animal rescue in N. Ireland.Sometimes she brings her work home with her. This is Freeway. I transferred a picture of him onto fabric and then painted it with fabric paint. It has soft, yummy minkie on the back. I used SITD so he would stand out better.
Quilt size: width: 60" height: 72"
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Ingrid’s Hounds By: Sally Gould Wright,
California, USA
Made as a gift for a friend this pieced and applique’d quilt pictures some of her beloved pets over the years – Bassets, Dachshunds and Miniature Pinschers. I paper pieced the dogs and set them in a traditional grid.
Quilt size: width: 40" height: 40"
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Jake’s quilt By: Dusty911,
British Columbia, Canada
I made this quilt for Jake when our other dog Mattie passed away. I wanted him to take comfort in it as he was quite depressed and lonely. A new quilt and many trips to the dog park later, he is a happy boy. He is an excellent dog and a great companion.
Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50"
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Jenny’s couch quilt By: Melissa Byerly,
Indiana, USA
My sister asked me to make her a couch quilt, her living room was blue and the couch was blue. I found this pattern in a magazine, but put my own spin on it, and made it scrappy. This is her puppy Bo laying on it.
Quilt size: width: 60" height: 80"
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Josh’s Kitty Quilt By: Ida Fenack,
Texas, USA
The quilt is a Trip Around the World Design with Tessellating Kitties at the center, their tails forming a snails trail block. The Kitties are Miss Lucy and Miss Tinkerbell. Lucy is no longer with us but we are fortunate to still have Tinker. I made the quilt for my son, Josh.
Quilt size: width: 70" height: 80"
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Kitty Goes Fishing By: Sheryl Walker,
Missouri, USA
This Project Linus quilt grew out of my desire to inject a little whimsy into a fishbowl quilt. It was given to a cat-loving girl who had spinal surgery.
Quilt size: width: 40" height: 49"
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Krazy Katz By: Lorna McMahon,
Ontario, Canada
My daughter, Erin, loves cats. Especially her cat, Fluffy. And she loves to read – especially books about cats. Her love is what inspired me to make the Krazy Katz quilt.
I designed the quilt to have a bookshelf surrounded by cats – featuring Erin’s pet – Fluffy. He is the orange & white one!
Quilt size: width: 75″" height: 85″"
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Little Lucy By: Tammy K,
Illinois, USA
I made this after we lost our Little Lucy cat (she got hit by a car). The snowball blocks are from newsprint fabric, because her favorite toy was crumpled up newspaper balls. The design came from the book “One of a Kind Quilts” that walks you through choosing the main theme and smaller blocks.
Quilt size: width: 23" height: 23"
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Mischief By: Becca,
Maryland, USA
I made this quilt in memory of my cat Mischief. She was my first baby after I got married. Every day she managed to live up to her name. She brightened my life and kept my feet warm for over 16 years. Today I have two beautiful, fun-loving, rescue dogs to keep my feet warm and make me laugh.
Quilt size: width: 63" height: 75"
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Mr.Maybell By: crystal mills,
Maine, USA
this is my first experiment with fuseable, he is my beautiful cat maybell. When I took the photo he thought he hiding behind a blade of grass
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 18"
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My first quilt By: Janine,
United Kingdom
This was the first quilt I ever made when I didn’t know how to quilt. My daughter has used it continually for about fifteen years though and it’s still going strong! The sheep is the last of our small flock. He’s very friendly.
Quilt size: width: 50" height: 64"
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Nick’s Quilt By: Janice Dowdeswell,
New Zealand
My daughter’s dog Nick, died a couple of years ago and she asked me to make a quilt from a photo of him. I enlarged the photo, traced the pieces onto vliesofix, cut the fabric pieces and ironed them down. I drew the markings on with coloured pencils then machine embroidered over the pencil.
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 24"
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Our Best Girl By: Tina Benson,
New York, USA
I had made everyone in the house, including the cat, their own quilt.. well except for our best girl Gracie that is. So for her birthday I made her her very own quilt made from dog prints and corduroy for the back and bindings. Funny thing is Gracie prefers to sleep UNDER her quilt, not on it !
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 36"
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Our Kelly By: Jenny in NZ,
New Zealand
My first attempt at working from a photo. Kelly looks like an old dog, and everyone says as much. She was 4 when the photo was taken, it is the Kelpie, Beardie mix which gives her so much grey through her coat. She is now 7 and rules the house, or so she thinks.
Quilt size: width: 17" height: 21"
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Pugs on Popsicle Sticks By: PugMom,
Massachusetts, USA
This is an Atkinson Designs’ pattern called Popsicle Sticks. My girlfriends and I all swapped 2.5″ strips of batik at a quilt weekend a few years ago and I used mine to make this quilt. I love all of the bright colors and so do Romeo, Elvis and LarryPug. This is a great and easy pattern to make.
Quilt size: width: 92" height: 106"
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Puppies for Ethan By: PennyJoy,
British Columbia, Canada
Made this quilt to celebrate the birth of a great nephew. His family loves dogs, so this fit the bill. The dogs’ ears flip up and have a different fabric underneath and many have different textures (like Minkee). He loves it.
Quilt size: width: 43" height: 60"
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Puppy Quilt By: Diane U.,
Ontario, Canada
This quilt was donated to our local animal shelter.
Quilt size: width: 35" height: 45"
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Puppyhood Happiness By: Christine Wilhelm,
New York, USA
Sammy is our golden retriever who is almost 2 1/2. She’s a total ham for the camera and loves to pose when she sees I’m taking snaps. After seeing this as a photo I knew I wanted to create it in fabric. This is a whole cloth quilt painted and embellished in honor of our Samantha!
Quilt size: width: 22" height: 18"
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Ruby Crystal By: Carol Ann Johnston,
Idaho, USA
This picture shows my “grand-kitty” Matilda showing her approval of my work on Ruby Crystal when we visited
Quilt size: width: 88.5" height: 88.5"
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Stars and Swirls and men’s shirts By: Teje Karjalainen,
Greece
I like the fabrics on men’s shirts and long time wanted to make quilts with them. I made ‘quilt couple’ because I couldn’t have done double size quilt in my small attic and with my machine. ‘Nero’ and ‘Hanna’ are allowed to sleep on them! More about their lovely Sunday in my blog.
Quilt size: width: 51″" height: 67″"
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The budgies By: Debbie Taylor,
Alberta, Canada
I googled stained glass and saw this picture of budgies, which I sized and traced to make my applique. Of course I changed the colors to match my birds.
Quilt size: width: 12" height: 12"
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The Cat House By: Karin,
Australia
For all those Cat lovers out there…my entry for this week’s theme ‘Quilts with Pets’ is this little wall hanging that I made out of a Panel that my daughter urged me to buy some time ago. I finally cut it up last year and used it as a FMQ practice piece to produce this little wall hanging
Quilt size: width: 18" height: 22.5"
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There’s No Place Like Home By: Nancy Rogers,
Massachusetts, USA
I made this quilt as a challenge at my guild: “There’s no place like home”. I took a photo of my dog sleeping, made an applique using the photo as a guide, and placed her on a rug (the challenge fabric) in front of a blazing fire.
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 30"
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Tiffanies 1st quilt By: Jeri Niksich,
Texas, USA
This is my 12yr old granddaughters 1st quilt. It’s along the pillowcase type quilt I guess, no boards & binding just turned right side out. It’s for our Lukie dog & for me to practice FMQ SITD, as I’ve not gotten as far as FMQing yet. She done the whole quilt with my help.
Quilt size: width: 31" height: 35"
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Toby and Roscoe By: Susan Arnold,
California, USA
This is based on a picture I took of my then four year old cat, Roscoe, in the window with our newest kitty, Toby. The 6-8 week old kitten mysteriously appeared in our garage one summer, and his staying was ‘to be’, thus the name Toby.
Quilt size: width: 18" height: 14.5"
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UNDER THE JELLICLE MOON By: quiltalicious,
California, USA
Made as a labor of love to honor all the kitties I’ve had over the years, past and present. I loved doing all the piecing and applique on this quilt. I had lots of assistance from my furry quilt helpers as I chose fabrics and worked on the quilt.
Quilt size: width: 70" height: 86"
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Winnie & Tiffany’s quilt By: PennyJoy,
British Columbia, Canada
Made this quilt for our 2 little dogs who have since passed. Our 2 current dogs, Meisje & Sasha, have it in their dogbed & snuggle with it all the time. I freehand quilted around the edges with nice comments about the dogs. It was a panel to start.
Quilt size: width: 36" height: 36"
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I love the Orange & Red collection. All of the colors are gorgeous, but that is my favorite.
It was tough to pick a quilt. They are all beautiful. I have a quilt on my “to do” list in memory of my cocker spaniel. :-)
The hand dyed fabrics are ALL beautiful, and it would be difficult to choose only one, but if I must, I would pick red/pink. :-)
I love the “malva and blackberry” dyed fabrics!
HI! LOVE THE REDS AND PINKS!
THANKS!
I like earth tones. Anything blues/greens/browns
I would love to win the yellow and yellow-orange bundle, its beautiful
Reds would be my choice. I tried to vote on her site, however was not successful in doing it. Love all the colors, but reds won out.
Too many to choose from. I love hot colors so anything in the reds and/or oranges are my favorites.
I love the Reds & Oranges. Beautiful!!!
They’re all gorgeous, but the yellow bundle is my favorite
I like them all, but the blue and turquoise is probably what I would choose.
Such beautiful fabric. My favorite is Blue.
love pink thanks
All the hand-dyed fabric bundles are gorgeous. I would be happy to win any one of them!
I love the red/orange bundle. Thanks
Love the hand dyed fabric such a vibrant range of colors!!
I am loving those heavenly blues.
Such yummy colors! I love the Malva and Blackberry bundle. Thank you for the nice giveaway. :)
I love the Blues…. Thanks
Some really nice quilts featuring pets this week!
I must say I love the quilt pictures this week! So many cuties! And that blue and turquoise bundle makes me drool like a dog!
I love the Autumn colors group. I can think of many projects I could make with them. Thank you for the chance to win.
Definitely the blue/turquoise bundle is my fave!
ilike the autumn colors best
I’m going with yellow.
Really tough call because each of those colors make me think of what I could do with it. Since I must choose one… I would go with reds and orange so I could make a fall quilt or a baby quilt. But all are beautiful.
Lovely bundles! I especially like the Olive green and Brown bundle.
I love them all, but the blues are my favorites!
The blue and turquoise are my favourite. Thanks for the giveaway!
Love the theme this week. And my favorite fabric bundle is the blue.
The yellow/orange color bundle is my favorite. Thanks.
love the quilts and the green/blue green bundle
thanks
Oh the beautiful BLUES and then the PURPLES…..pretty
I love all your colors but my favorite is your Blue and Turqoise bundle Thanks
Such beautiful colours, which makes it hard to pick a favourite, but I think the red/pink would be it.
Wonderful and beautiful colors….
I love the colors of Grape and Boysenberry. Thanks for showing us a new shop.
Wow! Yummy fabrics! All are great! If I have to pick one bundle, I choose blue.
Beautiful quilts and lovely giveaway. I love the blue and turquoise.
Malva and Blackberry is lovely!! Thanks!!
They are all beautiful, my favorite is blues. Thanks.
I just love the color blue. It could be just solids only or even a mixture of different shades of blue. I also enjoy Kona solids. Your giveaway would make a great quilt for yourself or even as a gift. Thank you for the chance to win and yes, I voted.
Sandi Timmons
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Gorgeous quilts as usual. So much talent out there. Of the colors that are in the give away my favorite is the green/blue green. On the site I would go with the olive green set. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love the red./oranges. Perfect for a hot summer day.
I like the grape and boysenberry.
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I like the greens! I had the perfect qult to enter this week, but I’m visiting a friend and she did not have internet connection this week! LOL
The quilts this week are delightful and Alfonsina’s fabric is absolutely gorgeous. The blue/turquoise combination is my favorite.
I love the collection of blues. Your fabrics are awesome! Thanks for donating the prizes.
All the bundles are wonderful. I think I’ll go with the “malva and blackberry” as my favorite. Thanks for the give-away donations.